Indian Antiquary Vol 09

SR No.: 032501
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 398
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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ANDHRA COINS.
MARCH, 1880.]
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His son will be (15) Chakora S&takar. nin;
His son will be (16) Sivas wati; His son will be (17) Gotamiputra; His son will be (18) Palomat;
His son will be (19) Sivasri Så takar- nin;
His son will be (20) Sivas kandha (the Matsya adds så taka rņi);
His son will be (21) Yajñasri; His son will be (22) Vijaya;
His son will be (23) Chandrasri (Dan. dasri);
His son will be (24) Pulomarchis (Pulomâvi).
These thirty Andrabhritya Kings will reign 456 years."'18
The total numbers in the royal succession above enumerated only reach twenty-four. The other Puranas are equally, though irregularly, defective; the Matsya list is the fullest, and retains twenty-nine names, with an aggregate total of 4351 years."
Personal Coins. GOTAMI's BRANCH.-YAÑA SATAKARNI. No. 5.—Bronze? Weight 240 grains. Size 7. Sir W. Elliot, 15
Obverse Device-Imitating, in some respects, the normal type of the preceding coins. The Chaitya or tope, in this case, seems to represent solid earth-work as distinguished from the builtup hollow outline of the earlier examples. It is, as usual, surmounted by the half-moon, while the conventional serpent at the bottom is left free and clear of the stúpa, unconfined within the lines of a basic pedestal. The sacred tree is also wanting, and in its place is supplied a lotus or water-lily on the one side and a conch-shell on the other. Legendरजो गोतमि पुतस सिरि यत्र सतकणस.
Raño Gotami-putasa Siri Yana Satakanasa. Reverse-Four circles, each composed of a central dot and two concentric circles, connected by semi-circular ligatures, surmounted apparently by a half-moon, forming, in effect,
13 Wilson's Vishnu Purana, vol. IV. p. xxiv., (Hall's ed.) vol. [V. p. 194. See also Pringep's Essays, vol. II., Useful Tables, p. 241; Asiatic Researches, vol. IX. p. 101; and Brihat Sanhitá, J. R. A. 8. (N.8.) vol. V. p. 8a, eto.
1. Wilson, Works, vol. IV. p. 199... 16 Figured as No. 105 of his original plate ri. Madras Journal of Literature and Science, vol. III. Mr. Sewell has another example from Amaravata weighing also 240 grains:
a leading type of the pattern, conventionally known as the Ujjain device.
Gotamî BRANCH.-YAÑA SATAKARNI. No. 6.-Lead. Size 41.
Obverse-A well-executed figure of an elephant to the left. Legend- gat Tae Paft T 14
Raño Gotami-putasa Siri Yana Sataka. Reverse-The usual Ujjain Symbol. No. 7.-Variants of the type of No. 6.
Obverse-The leading device of the elephant is retained, but the animal is profusely adorned with head-gear, &c. Legend- T .
Yana Sataka. Reverse-The Ujjain symbol.
The forms of the letters of the legends of these pieces clearly assign them to a later date, and possibly, to a different locality, from that of the prototype.
GOTAMI BRANCH.-YAÑA SATAKAENI. No. 8.-Lead. Weight 70 grains. Size 4.
Obverse-A boldly sunk die, bearing a welldesigned figure of a horse to the left. Legend-ti ar gae faft y ...
Raño Gotami-putasa Siri Yaha Sataka. Reverse-The conventional Ujjain symbol. No. 9.-Lead.' Weight 133 grains. Size 6.
Obverse-A well-executed figure of a horse to the right, balf-moon in the field. Legend- T ......... TUR.
Raño Gotami-patasa) Satukanasa. Reverse-Device indistinguishable.
Visipat BRANCH.-YASODA ? No. 10.- Lead. Weight 86 grains. Size 5.
Obverse-Small Chaitya, composed of three hollow inverted semi-circles or arches. Serpent free at the foot.
Legendरो वासिठ पुतस सर यसतस. Raño Vasitho-putasa Siri Yasatasa. (Yasoda ?] Reverse-The conventional four-fold sun.
Visitał BRANCH.-PULOMAT. No. 11.-Lead. Weight 86 grains. Size 4. Mr. Sewell's coin' from Gudivada.
10 Journal Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. VII. plate lxi. Prinsep's Essays, Pl. xx. figs. 29, 81, 88, &c. Numismata Orientalia, pt. i. plate figs. 5, 6. Cunningham, Bhilsa Topes (1854), Plates xxi., xxxii. We have a notice of such a combination in Ceylon :-" This monarch caused the chhatta on the Mah Athdpo to be gilt, and he set four gems in the centre of the four emblems of the sun, each of which cost a lakh."-Mahdwarhso, Tarnour, P. 229.
11 See the engraving in Sir W. Elliot's Plate si figare